BIOChristine Salama is an Encaustic Artist who creates images and objects that focus on the experience of physical and ethereal spaces. In Ancient Egypt, painting a portrait in encaustic was a way of commemorating the dead. The Mummy Portraits, or Funerary Portraits, were painted for a future life. This Future life was anticipated, but not fully known to the living. Salama paints with Encaustic while often considering the things that can and cannot be seen, places that are both familiar and unfamiliar, and a world that is oftentimes difficult to fully comprehend, quantify, or rationalize. Her work meditates on the essence of historical memory, and the experience of a fluid sense of space, culture, and time.